Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman has criticized USA Gymnastics for its lack of transparency after it revealed athletes will continue to train at Karolyi Ranch despite the organization's official announcement it was cutting ties with the center.

Raisman was among the more than hundred athletes, including fellow gold medal winner Simone Biles, who say they were sexually abused by former team doctor Larry Nassar at the Karolyi Ranch in Huntsville, Texas.

Biles spoke out on Monday, saying that being forced to go back to the ranch would be deeply traumatizing.

In the wake of mounting pressure, Kerry Perry, Team USA Gymnastics President and CEO announced on Thursday that USA Gymnastics had terminated its agreement with the ranch which 'will no longer serve as the USA Gymnastics National Team Training Center.'

But now it's been revealed that even while Perry made the announcement, there had been athletes training at the center. 'Please be aware that due to the close proximity and timing, we still plan to host the World Team Trials event at the National Team Training Center,' officials wrote.

Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman has criticized USA Gymnastics for its lack of transparency after its revealed athletes will continue to train at Karolyi Ranch despite the organization's official announcement they were cutting ties with the center

The trampoline gym at the Karolyi Ranch is shown here on September 12, 2015

Pictured are Martha and Bela Karolyi - whom the Karolyi Ranch was named after

USA Gymnastics officials have also informed members of the acrobatic gymnastics program that the World Team Trials are still due to go ahead at the ranch in early February.

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'A word of advice: continuing to issue statements of empty promises thinking that will pacify us will no longer work.

'Yesterday, USA Gymnastics announced that it was terminating its lease at the ranch where so many of us were abused. I am glad that it is no longer a national team training site but USA Gymnastics neglected to mention that they had athletes training there the day they released the statement.

Team USA members McKayla Maroney (left), Aly Raisman (center) and Gabby Douglas are seen here at the London Games in 2012; all three ladies were also abused by Nassar

A banner advertising the facility as a US Olympic training site hangs at the Karolyi Ranch in Huntsville, Texas in 2011

A sign points down the road to the Karolyi Ranch in Texas, shown in September 2015

'USA Gymnastics where is the honesty? Where is the transparency? Why must the manipulation continue? Neither USA Gymnastics nor the USOC have reached out to express sympathy or even offer support. Not even to ask: 'How did this happen? What do you think we can do to help?'

Raisman warned that Perry had taken on an organization that 'I feel is rotting from the inside.'

She entered the courtroom with another surprise guest, fellow Fierce Five teammate Jordyn Wieber, who grew up in the area and was just 8 when she began working with Nassar.

Wieber would be the first to speak, revealing publicly for the very first time that she too was sexually assaulted by Nassar.

'I'm a victim of Larry Nassar,' stated an emotional but incredibly composed Wieber at the start of her statement.

Raisman made her remarks later in the day and delivered what was without question the most powerful speech of the week.

Coward: Larry Nassar once again hid behind his hands for much of the proceedings on Friday (above)

Support system: Wieber and Raisman shared a hug after she spoke while the entire courtroom burst into applause

'I am here to face you, Larry, so you can see I've regained my strength,' said Raisman.

'That I am no longer a victim. I am a survivor.'

Raisman shed not a single tear and showed no sign of weakness as she spoke, looking right at Nassar the entire time.

Nassar awaits sentencing for years of sexually assaulting the team's athletes.

Over 100 women are set to deliver impact statements by the end of the sentencing hearing, which began Tuesday and will now likely run through next week.

Earlier this week, Biles came forward acknowledging her own abuse at the hands of Nassar, and saying she would be traumatized by having to return to train at the facility.

Team USA Gymnastics announced Thursday it will no longer train its athletes at the Karolyi Ranch in Huntsville, Texas, one of the sites where Larry Nassar sexually abused its team, after Simone Biles said she would be traumatized returning to the facility; Biles is seen here in the Balance Beam Final on day 10 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Rio Olympic Arena on August 15, 2016

'It is impossibly difficult to relive these experiences and it breaks my heart even more to think that as I work towards my dream of competing in Tokyo 2020, I will have to continually return to the same training facility where I was abused,' Biles wrote in an Instagram post on Monday

'It is impossibly difficult to relive these experiences and it breaks my heart even more to think that as I work towards my dream of competing in Tokyo 2020, I will have to continually return to the same training facility where I was abused,' Biles wrote.

Perry said Thursday, however, that what Biles described was not going to happen.

'It has been my intent to terminate this agreement since I began as president and CEO in December,' Perry said.

'Our most important priority is our athletes, and their training environment must reflect this. We are committed to a culture that empowers and supports our athletes.'

Perry said next week's training camp for the US Women's National Team had been cancelled.

'We are exploring alternative sites to host training activities and camps until a permanent location is determined,' the statement read.

'We thank all those in the gymnastics community assisting in these efforts.'

Biles is one of over hundred victims who have come forward as surviving Nasser's assaults.

Maroney performs on the floor at the women's team event final of the World Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo on October 11, 2011

McKayla Maroney is one of four women who competed in the past two Olympic Games that have come forward to reveal they were molested by Nassar, along with Raisman, Biles and Gabby Douglas.

The athlete first broke the terms of her agreement with USA Gymnastics when she shared a post on her Twitter account back in October.

It was during the #MeToo campaign when Maroney shared her story, claiming Nassar began abusing her when she 13, and that the assaults did not stop until she left the sport just last year at the age of 20.

'Dr. Nassar told me that I was receiving "medically necessary treatment that he had been performing on patients for over 30 years",' Maroney said of her abuse in a social media post.

'It seemed whenever and wherever this man could find the chance, I was "treated." It happened in London before my team and I won the gold medal, and It happened before I won my silver.'

USA Gymnastics said last month that the settlement terms were not drawn up by their lawyers but rather by Maroney's attorney.

'Contrary to reports, the concept of confidentiality was initiated by McKayla’s attorney, not USA Gymnastics. USA Gymnastics cannot speak to the mediation process, which is confidential and privileged under California law,' said USA Gymnastics in a statement.

'The process culminated in a settlement agreement that included a mutual nondisclosure clause and a mutual nondisparagement clause.'

The US Olympic Committee and Nassar former employer, Michigan State University, are also named in the suit.

'We are heartbroken that this abuse occurred, proud of the brave victims that have come forward and grateful that our criminal justice system has ensured that Nassar will never be able to harm another young woman,' said the USOC, who claim they were not involved in the settlement.

'I want people to understand that this kid had no choice. She couldn't function. She couldn't work,' said Maroney's attorney John Manly.

'It takes tremendous courage to publicly disclose it, knowing that any day there could be a process server at her door.'

Nassar has already been sentenced to 60 years in prison on federal charges for possession of child pornography.

He also faces civil lawsuits from most of his victims, which number over 100.